The authors are part of a group at Cambridge (actually, there are three members of the group) who are interested in studying threats from technology. “Many scientists are concerned that developments in human technology may soon pose new, extinction-level risks to our species as a whole.” says their website, The Cambridge Project for Existential Risk.

Go back and watch I Robot again. The only reason that the robot rebellion was foiled was because there was one robot who was designed to be independent enough to disagree.

If the “group” from Cambridge is correct, we need to get working on designing that robot that will save the day.